When a free improvisation doesn't go the way I planned it leads me to the conclusion​ that sometimes the best-laid​ plans are the unlaid plans.

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Melodies aren't infinite, so don't sue me if my tune "sounds" somewhat like "yours."​

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The last episode was a rant in defense of musical complexity; this one​, of course, takes the opposite view. Sort of.

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Part 1 of a rant (that will undoubtedly have many parts) on why we are so afraid of musical complexity.

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A quick overview of what you'll hear on "Improvisations on the Ledge"...

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A simple hymn-like tune gone wrong...because that's what I do.

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In this episode I dissect one of my pop tunes from the 1980s and the way in which it appropriates multiple styles across the world and centuries—which is not only a good thing but completely natural. So get over it...

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A reboot of Improvisations on the Ledge as a solo act (for now.) Somehow I conflate my free improvisation here with Damian Lillard's game and series-winning shot the other night.

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It’s the New Year’s show for the rest of us. Those of us, anyway, who can’t stand year-end summaries, top ten lists, and “Auld Lang Syne” Actually, we love that tune but wonder why this classic New Year’s song is all about the past...In the episode, I also introduce a new one minute song from my album, One Human Minute: "Another Trip Around the Sun."

The premiere episode of the podcast "Improvisations on the Ledge" in which Award-winning musician Peter Saltzman and polymath-provocateur D-Cubed engage in a freestyle battle of wits with music and words. At once topical and untypical, the two joust over everything from the connection between hip-hop and Bach to the question of why Jews have written so many great Christmas songs.